Improved clamp for embossing- harness-loops



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OWEN II. MORRIS, OEINEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

Letters Patent No. 97,675, dated December '7, 1869.

IMPROVE!) CLAMPI'OR EMBOBSNG- HARNESS-LOUPS.

,The Schedule referred to iuthese Letters Patent and making ps xt of the same.

1' o all whom 'it may concern.-

Be it known that LOWEN H; MORRIS, of New- Haven, in the county of New Havel'nand State of Gonnecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Apparatus for Embossing Harness-Loops; and I do hereby declare the following, whenltaken in connection with the -accompan yin g drawing, and the letters of reference I `marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawing constitutes part ofthis specification, and represents a perspective view of the` apparatus, Ias clamping a loop.

j IThis invention relates to an ,appz-tratas for holding the loop, formed on parts of a harness, for tucking' the,-

yendof thestrap.

On fine work, is customary to emboss these loops,

and difficulty has been experienced in the process-of ein I bossing, as the loop Inust be formed before it is emlooSSed. j I

' To overcome this difcultjgis the object of Vmy ini vention, which Consists in a plate and fixed bar to receive the loop, and bear upon one side, and an adj ustable clamping-bar, to hearnpon the other, side, so as to expose a portion of the loop to be embossed, and to clamp and hold the loop, so that the process of ein.- bossing will not affect the shapeof the loop.

r lo enable `others skilled 'in the art to make and use my invention, `[will proceed to describe-the saine. as illustrated inthe accompanying drawing. I

I here represent thefelnhossing of the loop .nponthe head-strap of a bridle, which is suflcient to illustrate the apparatus, and to enable others skilled Vin the art to `adapt the same to loops for other parts of the har- A is the bed-plate, upon which is formed a fixed plate .or bar,B, and upon the opposite side of' the bed- `plate, ears'O are formed, through which set-screws D are arranged. f I

E is Ian adjustable or loose bar, )laced upon the plate, so that the set-screws D will hear against it, and force it toward tbe bar B, or permit it being set further from the bar B.

Between the two bars B and E, the loop F, to be embossed, is placed, and the bar hl forced against the loop, so as to clampthe loop' firmly between the two bars B and E, the loop being fixed by the strap G, as

` seen in the drawing. I

rI hen the die or instrument for embossing is applied to the loop, and the ornamentation impressed or raised thereon, and,when Complete, is removed from the clamp, and this is done without, in any way, injuring the shape of the loop.

` Having wfully described my invention,

What I claim as new and useful, and desire tosecureby Letters Patent, is-

The apparatus, consisting Of tbe plate A, fixed harl *A B, adjustable barE,arranged in the manner described, so as to relieve the partfnot to be clamped, and the screws I), for vthe purpose o f holding harness-loops, j

While being formed, ornamented, and iinishcd, in the manner herein described.

' OWEN MORRIS.

Witnesses:

A. J. TIBBrrs, J. H. SHUMWAY. 

